Would-Be Gentleman (1968)

overview : Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing and the bourgeois personality, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class and the vain, snobbish aristocracy. The title is meant as an oxymoron: in Molière's France, a "gentleman" was by definition nobly born, and thus there could be no such thing as a bourgeois gentleman.

Release Date : Dec 28, 1968

Runtime : 2h 10m

Genre : Comedy  TV Movie  

Companies : Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française

Countries : France

Keywords : marriage proposal, france, diamond, music teacher, bourgeoisie, ignorance, count, based on play or musical, maid, love affair, parasite, nobility, dance teacher, 17th century, ottoman empire